What inspires you ...

Hello all! I hope that everyone has had a great start to 2015. I haven't been blogging much as I have been busy getting words on the page, but today I decided to crawl out from under my rock.

Today I really needed a jolt of something. I've been plodding along on my novel Keeper of Shadows and the honeymoon stage is clearly over. The real hard work has begun and sometimes it's harder to get my brain moving when I'm stuck. Then I came along a blog post called OF WRITING AND A FEAR OF FAILURE at https://livelovereadya.wordpress.com

The post asked it's readers about what inspires them. It really made me think about why I do what I do. Why I push through the doldrums of a novel with no guarantee that it will be readable once I get through to the other side. I thought about it and this is what I said:

I write because I don’t know what I would do without it. It’s like the first time I got a cellphone. At first it was this cool thing I used once in a while, but after about a month I would attack someone with a butter knife on a dime if they even joked about taking it away from me. Writing is the one thing that I do that is just for me. I can take it anywhere. I can write anything. I can hit the delete key and start over and make my historical romance into a sci-fi horror space opera then break it down and build it back up again. I can make the voices in my head (character voices, nothing clinical – I hope) into real people with feelings and wants and needs. I can let them win or make them cry in the fetal position in a distant corner of hell. So … I guess you can say my writing inspiration comes from the thought that anything is possible as long as I’m willing to pick up a pen.

After I clicked publish my comment gave me the push I needed to keep moving. At least for now.

So now I'm asking all of you the same question. What inspires you? Maybe remembering will inspire someone else.

Comments:

Holly Geely
on Feb 4, 2015 9:40 AM posted:

I want to make people laugh - that's my usual inspiration.
Well, that and my burning need for bad puns.

Scarlett Kol
on Feb 4, 2015 8:06 PM posted:

Making people laugh is always a great thing! There needs to more laughing in the world.